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SLOW MOTION SUICIDE: OUR FATAL VICES

Humans spent most of our prehistory in an environment that was very short in fat, salt, Oreos, and cigarettes. In the past century that has changed, especially in Western cultures. Our bodies, our very brains, have yet to adapt. We’re still in the infatuation stage, wallowing in the bliss that only a mass of sugar, [...]

HUMANS AND BOOZE, CHAPTER ONE MILLION

See, it’s not just to make you forget your troubles. Egyptian jars that absorbed traces of their contents 5,000 years ago are now letting go: Wine was a vehicle to carry medicine into the human body, just as alcohol based cough syrups do to this day.    Not that wine lacks pharmaceutical qualities of its [...]

Happy Green Beer Day!

Happy Alcohol Day! Humans and our love of booze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUyJJR_0Vg Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d182′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });